Regarding Doubt and Certainty in al-Ghazālī’s Deliverance from Error and Descartes’ Meditations

In light of the similarities between Descartes’ famous cogito proof presented in his Meditations and al-Ghazālī’s argument for the validity of prophesy in Deliverance from Error, this article provides a close comparative analysis of the role and form of doubt and certainty in their works. Using Heidegger as a framework to make sense of the differences between al-Ghazālī and Descartes, this article also examines Heidegger’s claim that it is Descartes who is responsible for the subjectivization of value that is indicative of modernity.